
- 293 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Cunning, fantastical tales about a Greek village of the imagination, from a startling new talent
Panos Karnezis' remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there--the priest, the whore, the doctor, the seamstress, the mayor--and the occasional animal: a centaur, a parrot that recites Homer, a horse called History. Their lives intersect, as lives do in a small place, and they know each other's secrets: the hidden crimes, the mysteries, the little infamies that men commit.
Karnezis observes his villagers with a worldly eye, and creates a place where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a place full of passion, cruelty, and deep reserves of black humor. These stories recall the masters of the form--the wit and sophisticated playfulness of Saki and the primal fatalism of Prosper Merimee--but they are utterly original and prove that Karnezis is one of the freshest new voices in English fiction.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Epigraph
- A Funeral of Stones
- Another Day on Pegasus
- Deus ex Machina
- Jeremiad
- Whale on the Beach
- The Day of the Beast
- A Circus Attraction
- Stella the Spinster’s Afternoon Dreams
- Cassandra Is Gone
- Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?
- Medical Ethics
- Immortality
- A Classical Education
- Sins of a Harvest God
- Sacrifice
- The Hunters in Winter
- Applied Aeronautics
- On the First Day of Lent
- The Legend of Atlantis
- Also by Panos Karnezis
- Praise for Little Infamies
- Copyright Page